## ODonnellWeb – Tag Personal

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Posted on 02/21/2022 in misc • Tagged with Personal

Which party I attended turned out to be a really important decision.


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My Day with President Biden

Posted on 02/11/2022 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Politics, Virginia

30 feet from President Biden is not my closest Presidential encounter


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The Wanderlust is Real

Posted on 01/22/2022 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Travel

The walls are closing in after a month of no travel.


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Cutting back on Social Media 2022 Edition

Posted on 01/05/2022 in misc • Tagged with Facebook, LinkedIn, Internet, Personal

It's time to be less plugged in


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2021 Was Certainly a Year

Posted on 12/31/2021 in misc • Tagged with Site-News, Personal

We did it. We survived another year in a pandemic.


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30th Anniversary

Posted on 08/29/2021 in misc • Tagged with Haiku, Personal

30th anniversary haiku


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Vaccine Freedom Day

Posted on 05/01/2021 in misc • Tagged with Richmond, Personal, Virginia, Coronavirus

Freedom from disease is actual freedom


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Vaccinated and it Feels so Good

Posted on 03/24/2021 in misc • Tagged with Richmond, Personal, Virginia, Coronavirus

I got my first shot of Pfizer today


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Something resembling normal

Posted on 03/21/2021 in misc • Tagged with Richmond, Personal, Virginia, Coronavirus

Today was the most normal I've felt since the before times


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Maybe I'm Where I'm Supposed To Be

Posted on 03/16/2021 in misc • Tagged with Richmond, Personal, Virginia

Maybe I'm where I'm supposed to be


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Valentine's Day 2021

Posted on 02/14/2021 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Family

Valentine's Day in a pandemic


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I'm Over College Sports

Posted on 01/24/2021 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Sports, Purdue

It's not you Purdue, it's me.


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All my rides

Posted on 01/12/2021 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Cars

Every car I've owned


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Christmas 2020

Posted on 12/23/2020 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Christmas

It was certainly a year, wasn't it?


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Thanksgiving 2020

Posted on 11/25/2020 in misc • Tagged with Thanksgiving, Personal

I have much to be thankful for


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Squirrel Control

Posted on 10/20/2020 in misc • Tagged with Personal

Somebody reads two blogs posts about the Richmond Flying Squirrels and concludes that I am an influencer in the squirrel control space.


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29th Anniversary Haiku

Posted on 08/19/2020 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Haiku

Virus ruined Spring
A Summer of discontent
I still fall for her

Picture of Chris & Michelle


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What States Have You REALLY Visited?

Posted on 07/10/2020 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Travel

road

Updated July 2024

Do you remember back in the golden days of blogs when somebody would write something then a bunch of other people would write about the same thing and link back to each other and somehow all this happened without Nazis invading your comments?

I miss those days …


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I wasn't planning on getting remarried today

Posted on 05/02/2020 in misc • Tagged with Coronavirus, Virginia, Hiking, Personal

Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

Forest Photo

It was 72 and sunny here today. My strategy for …


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My first professional site

Posted on 01/13/2020 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Internet

Earlier this week a long time Internet friend posted that she had found her old Hypermart site. Hypermart was "Geocities for businesses." I knew the three founders from my first Internet job. They started the site with one server and in less than a year (IIRC) they had sold it …


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